Review of the best quality software for macOS and Windows. They will become assistants and will be useful to everyone in the daily use of your PC. Programs take leading positions in downloads and user likes.
Softorino YouTube Converter 2
The program in a couple of clicks downloads any video from YouTube in the highest possible quality (and you can select it in the settings), save it to your PC or convert it and automatically send it to your iPhone or iPad in the Video application. Since the program was created by the developers of WALTR 2, the video can be sent not only through a wired connection, but also through a Wi-Fi connection. There are no advertisements and long expectations that you face when downloading videos, you can even download entire playlists, there is the possibility of extracting audio from YouTube videos, the converter is perfectly tuned for each resolution of the iPhone or iPad and therefore copes with its task without losing quality, themes most saving space on devices. Softorino YouTube Converter 2 is a really cool utility that you can use almost every day.
Fantastical 2
If you are looking for an alternative to the standard calendar, then you can hardly find something more perfect and interesting than Fantastical 2 for Mac. In addition to the main window, a compact version for the menu bar appeared. The program has always been famous for its recognition mechanisms when adding a new event. She determines the time, day, sets a reminder and assigns a category. True, this feature works only in English so far. The developers promise to add Russian localization in the future. Of course, all parameters of an event or task can be added manually. You should love the informative bullets under the numbers, a list of all events, quickly switch and manage calendars, work with categories, and much more. Be sure to try Fantastical 2, especially since the program has a free trial period.
Bluestacks 3
If you are looking for an advanced Android emulator on your PC, then you probably won't find anything better than Bluestacks. The program was updated to the third version in which it became even more convenient to play Android games on a PC with a mouse and keyboard, support for high resolution appeared, and performance was significantly increased. You can find games for every taste in the new App Center service, with your reviews, pictures and reviews of applications from Google Play. There was a simplified management setup, chat between users as in Steam and even a multi-window. And the developers have added the ability to broadcast on Twitch or Facebook. It is thanks to Bluestacks that I manage to test games and programs for our collections without having an Android gadget on hand. And most importantly, Bluestacks is a huge community that has a forum, an advanced FAQ and technical support with which you can solve almost any issue in the shortest possible time. And it's all free.
Paragon NTFS 15
Every novice Mac developer is faced with limitations in working with the Windows NTFS partition format. Read-only available. NTFS for Mac 15 from Paragon solves this issue once and for all. Now you can easily read, write and delete files from any flash drives, hard drives and even Boot Camp partitions formatted in NTFS. You will have full control over mounting partitions, your own analogue of the macOS disk utility, high performance comparable to working in native HFS +, which not every analogue can boast of, support for the Russian language, and all this for ridiculous money. Never again feel uncomfortable with frequent communication with both macOS and Windows computers.
Affinity photo
When Adobe Photoshop seems, and why it seems, it is difficult, and Paint is about nothing, you can use an excellent alternative in the person of Pixelmator, which I have already talked about in previous collections. Only here is one problem - the product is purely for the Mac. Another thing is the cross-platform solution Affinity Photo, which is not worse in functionality, but is available for both Mac and Windows. In general, it will even be a much more powerful alternative to Fotoshop: working with CMYK and Lab colors, full support for professional pen tablets, color management system, convenient creation of snapshots, support for 64-bit filters for Photoshop, RAW files, much more advanced selection settings (adding hair or fur to a mask is really easy), several image conversion algorithms when scaling, a tool for auto-exporting layers in three resolutions at once and a whole bunch of add-ons that you can work with just playfully. There is no Russian language, as in all analogs, but you can deal with Affinity Photo in a few evenings, and you will get pleasure without studying the volume in Photoshop. There is also an iPad version.
Things 3
Surely many of you have heard about updating the Things 3 task manager on iPhone and iPad. The Mac version was also brought to match the mobile application. Things 3 is a convenient, cute and very convenient task manager that has all the important functions and is not burdened with a complex interface and unnecessary features. There is a convenient work with projects, task lists, support for shortcuts, cloud synchronization, cool search and Russian. I did not like the integration with Siri, which is implemented through reminders and the limitation of one Apple platform. I think if the developers ported their project to Windows and Android, it would be a matter of time before Things 3 took the lead. OmniFocus 2 made a complete move to Things 3 months ago due to the overkill and overwhelming features of OmniFocus 2 and have no regrets.
Microsoft OneNote
Microsoft's product, OneNote, can boast of its advanced features. In the program, you can make plans for the necessary events, write down ideas and track the implementation of tasks, move information at any time on pages, use mechanisms for organizing information, add tags, images, audio notes, draw and much more. The program is cross-platform, free and in Russian. There is support for group editing, which opens up a small corporate segment. Microsoft's brainchild will appeal to and suit many. If at some point you begin to understand that you work more at the computer, and your productivity has decreased, then it's time to analyze what you spent your time on.
Qbserve
I would like to recommend the geeky and very thoughtful Qbserve program. The app tracks all your Mac activities and uses a powerful algorithm to identify what you are doing, categorize these activities into one of three categories (productivity or study, neutral and distracting), and display the bottom line percentage of your productive or less productive time at the computer in the menu bar. Qbserve digs very deeply and analyzes every site that you visit, you understand in which Telegram or Skype chat you are sitting and is practically not mistaken with the definition of the type of activity. There are many more advanced gadgets in the application for which you can easily select a whole review, so download and try prose and after a thorough analysis, you will definitely increase your productivity on Mac. The developers will soon add the Russian language.
Movavi Screen Capture Studio
There is a standard QuickTime Player utility for capturing images on Mac, but it is very limited in functionality. On Windows, there are no out-of-the-box programs at all for filming everything that happens on the computer's desktop. The professional in recording Mac and Windows screens with sound is Movavi's Screen Capture Studio. The program has flexible settings in choosing a recording area, capturing system or other sound sources, recording quality and even post-processing of the finished video. It can be quickly trimmed, added transitions, text, converted to the desired format for viewing on any devices. Movavi Screen Capture Studio is fast, efficient and convenient. The utility helped out a lot several times. As a bonus, there are screenshot tools.
Android File Transfer
I connected an Android smartphone to the Mac and … I saw nothing. Neither USB mode, nor any other whistle helped. I installed Android File Transfer and made my smartphone and computer friends. The utility is free, sends files up to 4 GB in both directions and works even with the most current firmware 7.0. The program integrates into the regular Finder.
